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Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by catch23 »

nexneo wrote: post #9
frou_dh wrote: post #5

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An ergonomic mouse.

Agree, Magic mouse is really nice. Still too flat.

I think if they added curvatures it would make the multi-touch gestures hard to use. Hard to do a 3-finger swipe on a curved surface because your fingers would still need to be at an angle to the surface causing you to unnaturally bend your hand upward.

Try to use a touch pad that is at a 45 degree angle away from you, you'll find your wrist straining over. I'm sure they tried a curved mouse, but then realized the touch gestures would be too painful on the wrist.

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by sshumaker »

vtail wrote: post #6

What's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.

Try reading comics using the Marvel app - that certainly wouldn't translate well to a kindle. I wish there was a better selection (and other comic companies would jump on the bandwagon), but it's pretty fantastic. I ended up buying 40$ worth in the space of two hours.

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by dangero »

I wonder if there's more money in making apps ipad enabled now since that market isn't nearly as saturated as the iphone market. So if there's 80 million iPhone/Ipod touches out there, but 200K apps, and only 2K ipad enabled apps, it may be worth it.

And yes, I'm aware that iphone apps work on the ipad, but my friends who have ipads won't install iphone apps on their ipad because they come out looking so pixelated.

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by codyrobbins »

tghw wrote: post #82
codyrobbins wrote: post #60

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But at that point, you’re spending as much as an iPad for something that has a fiftieth the functionality, and not to mention no color screen. I still just don’t get it.

Kindle 2 costs $260 new. The cheapest iPad is $500. Want 3G, like the Kindle has? $630, plus $15/month. It does one thing, and it does it well: reading books.

OP is talking about a Kindle DX, which is only $40 cheaper than the cheapest iPad.

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by mlongo »

macrael wrote: post #58
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> Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is necessarily a number to make Amazon feel safe. Even if we had that number, I'm not sure it would tell us much because the two devices are very different. On the Kindle, buying books is the primary thing to do. On the iPad, it is just one of many. So while many iP…

Right, that's why I think that the total number of books sold, not the number per device, would be an interesting number to compare. Are there more books being bought for the Kindle or for the iPad? What does that graph look like?

Well, right now there better be more books selling for the Kindle then for the iPad. :-)

The Kindle is a single purpose device that has been on the market for a couple of years and every single one of them was sold to a person who is a regular reader, otherwise they would not have bothered buying a reading device.

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by codyrobbins »

potatolicious wrote: post #83
codyrobbins wrote: post #60

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But at that point, you’re spending as much as an iPad for something that has a fiftieth the functionality, and not to mention no color screen. I still just don’t get it.

A BMW is 3x the price of a Toyota but has the same number of wheels and pedals. It doesn't go too much faster either. When you look at a spec sheet or list of bullet-point features, and can't seem to see the attractiveness of a good-selling product, you are probably missing the forest for the trees. [edit] Also, a futon is a bed and a couch - two use cases for the price of one! Yet it hasn't exactly taken over beds a…

Your example of a BMW vs. a Toyota only emphasizes my original point. A BMW is fundamentally the same thing as a Toyota, but worth 3× as much. An iPad is not the same thing as a Kindle—for my purposes, the iPad does what the Kindle does except way better, plus it does a million things that the Kindle can’t do. And I wasn’t looking at a list of features, I used one.

If the iPad is a BMW, then the Kindle isn’t a Toyota that costs ⅓ as much—it’s a golf cart that costs exactly as much as the BMW. If they made a futon that is better than both a stand-alone mattress and a stand-alone couch, then, yes—it would take over beds altogether.

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by sliverstorm »

KirinDave wrote: post #89
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I typically start my argument with the 2 week battery life.

I have a DX. If you leave the radio on, it does not have a 2 week battery life. If you meticulously remember to turn the kindle off _and_ you don't use it, you might limp to two weeks. But then you actually start reading a lot and maybe playing just a smidge of music to drone out crowd noise and you're at maybe 2 days of medium use. Better than an iPad, but it's not some magical perpetual motion reader.

Yes, the radio messes things up, which is why I leave it off 99% of the time. It's mostly useless when I'm just reading.

2 weeks if you don't use the Kindle? I'm confused as to how you came up with that. Some quarters I will go months without a chance to read. I turn off the wireless, my Kindle 2 auto-sleeps, and it still has a mostly-full charge months later.

If you don't use the wireless and don't play music (I find music distracting, and prefer my iPod or my stereo anyway) the battery life is truly epic. Though, this may be different for the DX.

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by pstevensza »

mos1 wrote: post #72
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> I've found a bunch of use cases where the iPad excels What are those ? edit: why would a genuine question out of curiosity be modded down? I'm really weirded out by that. The ipad is a reasonably new form factor and new form factors bring new use cases, and I'd like to know what those are.

My most common iPad uses to date: - read my RSS feeds and Bloomberg News with my coffee and breakfast, just like I read the newspaper. I never did this with a laptop (too large, too vulnerable) and it's nice to start the day with all my news in one spot. (I also make my scrabble moves during breakfast now.) - taking notes while in meetings / at a conference. Again, I never liked using laptops for notes because they c…

This is the kind of use I've envisioned having an iPad for, sort of a digital newspaper with the possibility to extend the information base with apps. Looking forward to the iPad landing in SA. Better take a bib to the iStore so I don't mess up the demo unit...

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by acgourley »

modoc wrote: post #38
tjogin wrote: post #28

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Apple is primarily a hardware company. The present AppStore isn't a big money maker for Apple for the iPhone/iPad (look at their financial reports), I don't see why it would be that different for iPad.

On the iPad, for the first time with an Apple device, I can easily see myself spending more than the HW purchase cost on apps/content over the next 12 months. Obviously Apple only gets a % of that, but still it's not insignificant and it's a relatively high margin revenue stream. I think we'll see some surprising numbers in next years financials or the year after that.

Agreed. I also have to wonder if the report showing the app store only broke even was because of initial investments which they will not have to repeat in the future.

Re: Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days

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Post by Shorel »

smakz wrote: post #13
vtail wrote: post #6

What's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.

If you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long stretches of reading, iPad can't replace books the same way the Kindle can. Although I'm personally not surprised that books aren't that popular on iPad, but I was curious if people would overcome the above deficiencies with the form factor…

Mi old Sony Ericsson P900 replaced paper books for me four or five years ago.

I read the entire robots and foundation Asimov novels in it, and also about 20 of the discworld books.

So, for some people it works, YMMV.

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